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Twining and Coiling at the NYS Sheep and Wool Festival

Teaching two natural basketry workshops at the 2015 NYS Sheep and Wool Festival two weekends ago was an amazing experience All of my workshop participants were creative, fun, and ready to learn! It was super inspiring to see the sheer variety and ingenuity that folks brought to the table and I want to share that inspiration with you today. I’m already looking forward to next year… I’ll…

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Plant Dye Recipes Tutorials: How to Make a Jewelweed Dye

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Bark Processing of Four Northeastern Trees

This summer was my first working with trees for basketry. I set out to try several different species and learn what I could about selecting trees, removing the outer bark, stripping the inner bark, and preparing it for weaving. Overall it was a success and I ended up with a lot of material that I am looking forward to using! I am recording my observations about the process here to hopefully help…

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Learning to Weave a Basket

Learning to Weave a Basket CHECK OUT THE BLOG I love helping out those of you are DIY to the heart. Check out my blog posts for tidbits of information, tutorials, and advice. WORKSHOP CALENDAR For those who love to learn in community I’m teaching a several Hudson Valley venues this summer and fall. Visit my 2015 Workshop Calendar to see the wide variety of options— from random weaving with…

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Harvesting White Ash Inner Bark for Basketry

Adventures in Bark Basketry After learning how to use bark in basketry during my internship in Asheville this winter my big project for this year became incorporating bark into my repertoire of natural materials. Although I processed already harvested bark and learned to weave with it down south, actually finding, cutting down, and harvesting the bark from the trees is a new adventure! I’ve done…

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Baskets Galore! A Gallery of Natural Baskets from my 2015 Internship with Matt Tommey

Like the title indicates this is a sample of some of my favorite baskets that I made during three months this winter while I lived in Asheville, NC and interned with artist Matt Tommey in his River Arts District studio and gallery. I had an amazing time and learned so much even during the short time I was interning. I would highly recommend checking out Matt’s website (http://www.matttommey.com/

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55 Watercolor Paintings of Feathers in 2014!

I have a special place in my heart for birds and have collected many beautiful feathers over the past several years from all over the country. Almost since the beginning I aspired to do watercolor paintings of these treasures, but the paintings never turned out the way I envisioned they would— until this past year. I really dove in and found that once I put my heart into it I made paintings that…

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Inspiring Sculptural Baskets Made from Nature

Week three in Asheville and things are still going great! I’m really diving into learning about processing natural materials as well as the nuances of techniques like twining. And in my spare time I’m researching artists and obsessing over photos of baskets on pinterest. And in my spare spare time I’m out exploring local forests and parks like Linville Gorge and enjoying 60 degree weather while…

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Weaving Baskets in the Land of the Pine

Since graduating from college with my BFA I’ve been looking for ways to continue my education in the fields that I love the most— natural dyes, basketry, and working with natural, wild crafted materials to make fine art. Well, for the next few months I have moved from the wintery and freezing cold Hudson Valley to Asheville North Carolina to do an internship with basketry artist Matt Tommey. He…

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Experiments with Nettle Dye, Take Two

Last year I posted a recipe for making dye with Stinging Nettles. to check out that post click here. The dye bath from last year turned out to be a lovely, yet light color. I had harvested in the late spring once the nettles were about 16 inches tall. It was pretty, but I wanted to see if I could achieve a darker color this year. Knowing that the color is coming straight out of the leaves I…

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Twined Dogwood and willow baskets... Getting excited for my willow basketry class in two weeks! Sign up now while there is still space : ) wildearth.org

Brushing up on some cattail coiled basketry in preparation for my October 18th workshop! Want to learn how to take cattail, grasses, and other plants growing wild in your yard and make baskets from them? Wildearth.org adult programs🌾🌾🌾

Fun With Mushroom Dyes

This past month I was lucky to be able to take a workshop on Mycopigments– or using mushrooms for dyes. Who would believe that such plain and unassuming little mushrooms could produce a literal rainbow of colors? Needless to say, I learned a lot and have been a little obsessed ever since the day of the workshop. Basically during the class we used 9 different mushrooms and one lichen to create a…

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Indigo Fever: Japanese Indigo Dye Photos from Summer 2013

As I prepare for the new growing seasons, sow my natural dye seeds and research recipes it seems like the perfect time to share photos from my experiments with Japanese Indigo from last summer. It was my first time growing Polygonum tinctorium and it was a great success. I ordered the seeds on Etsy and started them indoors about 4 or 6 weeks early. It was so amazing to see them sprout! I…

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All About Pine Needles Baskets

Why I love Coiled Baskets

A new basketry workshop is on the calendar! I am so excited to be…

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Wild Earth Basketry Series

The Meditation and Challenge of Basketry People attending Wild Earth’srecent 3-class basketry…

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Sweetgrass coiled basket from Georgia.

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